Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that unlocking the iPhone was a hardware hack not a matter of installing an app. If you crack something open and take a soldering iron to it, you really should assume you are on your own.
I'm not really trying to defend Apple here, but what I've read about iPhone unlocking sounds more analgous to overclocking a chip, rather then trying to run Linux on it.
I wouldn't say they are being fooled just based on the articles they present. Just because the article is 'reprinted' here doesn't necessarily mean that it is receiving the endorsement of the editors as to being factual or accurate. The editor's job is only to point to articles that might be of interest to/.'s readers. Its better that the accuracy of the articles be discussed be/.'s readers, some of which might know what they are talking about. Relying on the editors to judge the actual facts would be a recipe for disaster.
Man, I can't believe I just defended the editors. I'm going to get modded to hell for this.
Given what everyone is saying in this thread my opinion doesn't seem very popular, but I would say that the first book is by far the weakest of the series. I really feel that Jordan hadn't really found the stories 'voice' yet and only does so in the following book. The books 2, 3, are undeniably great though after that the story turns from being about kids on an adventure to young men and women waging war and consolidating power. The story arcs get much much more complicated and dwell on politics, rather then survival. Personally I love the later books and I've gone through them all about 3-4 times (usually on tape). There are definitely areas where the story could be shortened (Perrin I'm looking at you) and told more succinctly, but I wouldn't call it filler as some here do. If you don't like long descriptions of nearly everything, you won't like Jordan's writing and its best to avoid any but maybe the earlier books.
I have the series on Book on Tape. For some reason when they are being read to me, I don't find 8-10 tedious at all. You might try it if you gonna make another run through. I'm actually listening to Book 5 now, and man it's good (I love Asmodean).
I read an interview where he says that he wrote the end already. He claims that the Last Battle was the first scene to occur to him, and the rest of the story cropped up around it. I imagine that the first 1500 pages will be where the ghost writer comes in.
Oh, btw Book 11 is one of the best in the series, I highly recomend it. Its shocking how quickly things begin getting resolved, especially after the slow pace of 8-10.
Well he did eventually get invited, usually because I would tell him. The problem was that I really wouldn't think to until the night of the party, and he's the type that likes to know ahead of time. Its not like anyone was excluding him, they just didn't always think to send out notices beyond MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster.
The other day I was watching 'The Big Sleep' (1946) with Humphry Bogart and Lauren Bacall. At one point the DA's man is taking down Bogart's testimony regarding a case. The camera cuts the the sheet of paper to reveal he is writing lines of what appear to me to be incomprehensible jibberish. I exclamed "What the hell lanquage is that?!" to which my girlfriend replied: "That's shorthand, its how people used to write quickly before touchtyping".
Given that people commonly compose emails on thier phones or PDAs or what have you, is it really that strange to think that they might try to save time by using a phone friendly form of shorthand?
My roommate is like that, he never created an accout on any SN site. He gets really pissed because he never gets invited to parties anymore as all the invites are distributed on MySpace (within our circle of friends). Likewise, he didn't buy a cell phone until 2006, and only then because at that point the cell phone was cheper then a land line. Before that, it annoyed everyone else that he was so hard to reach that even his close friends eventually stopped trying. I've never seen the nobility in not participating in cultural trends. All he ever did was isolate himself and alienate his friends.
Bioshock is the only game that I've played which actually inspires my spouse to sit beside me, totally enthralled as events unfold. She practically begs me to play so she can see what's going to happen next. All in all, my feeling is that this is a game that shouldn't be missed.
This is the reason I wish the game had a co-op mode. My g/f likes to watch too, but usually she would rather play along.
They used to use ditto machines when I was in Elementary school. Those things were hideous with their awful purple/blue color, and were often so light as to be almost illegible. The switched to photo copiers right around when I turned 10 or so. I remember being impressed by how much nicer they were.
I agree with you that HFCS is the problem, but not in the way that most people think. Its not that HFCS is worse for you then sugar, its that its far cheaper then sugar, and so its used in everything from bread, to meat, to drinks. Essentially, it brought the cost of processed food down to the point that it doesn't cost McDonalds anything to 'supersize' it. They offer it, and we as animals will often take them up on the offer as it makes sense from a survival in the wild standpoint to eat as much as is available.
An anecdote to demonstrate my point: My friend Chris eats Burger King almost every single day, and has for as long as I can remember. He weighs 127 pounds, hasn't gained a pound since high school over 10 years ago, and doesn't work out (literally sits in front of the computer all day, both at work and at home). Why doesn't he gain weight, everything in his meal is saturated with HFCS and therefor calories? The answer is, he orders off the dollar menu and gets a small hamburger, small fry, and small coke. I'm not positive but I think that the 'happy meals' are larger, then his dinners. He might not have the healthiest diet in the world, but he doesn't seem any worse off for it.
It would help if you at least attempted to use proper capitalization and grammar. I'm not much of a grammar nazi, but people who never heard of the shift key come off as 15 or less. i SUPPosE We ShOUld aLL B GrATEful YoU DoNT TyPE LIKe ThiS ## LIke MY 14 YEar OlD CouSIN.
(My apologies if English isn't your first language, I'm assuming it is.)
I don't know about that. My ex had one of those mythical metabolisms that let her eat anything she wanted. She was about 5'5 and had to actively fight to keep her weight from falling below a hundred pounds. She existed mostly on cheeseburgers and pizza, like many college students. She was quite muscular too, with very defined abs, though after living with her for a year and a half I'm confident she has never done a single sit-up in her life. Her mother is the exact same way, even in her late 50s.
We now know that humans have been growing crops and raising animals way further back then 12,000 years, though not 50,000. So your both wrong, you cocky shitheads.
I've always wondered if Blade Runner was supposed to take place in the 'Aliens' universe. After all, both movies were made by Ridley Scott and there is what could be an early gen replicant in the first one.
My last 3 laptops have been: First Gen iBook, First Gen Al Powerbook, and First Gen Black MacBook. The iBooks keyboard was a piece of shit, the Powerbook's was great and the MacBook's is so good I have a really hard time typing on anything else.
I'm not much for 'clicky' desktop keyboards, you have to move your fingers too much. An almost perfectly flat keyboard sounds very appealing to me. I suppose it all depends on your point of view.
True conservatives hate the government, considering it a necessary evil that ought be severely limited. Just because the neocons call themselves conservatives, it doesn't make it so. Anyway, conservative/liberal hasn't really meant anything for a very long time.
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"To answer your question, no it doesn't mean Xbox 360 has few good games..."
Well in all fairness, 360 does have very few good games, as at this point it has very few games period. Still... XBox 360 is the first game system I've purchased (unless you count the NES, which my parents purchased, but made me cut the grass for an entire summer first) and I can't say I regret the investment. Between GoW, Oblivion, Fight Night 3, and Geometry Wars I've been pretty well entertained. GoW is probably the best shooter fun I've had since Goldeneye, its an amazing party game. The rate at which games are released will pick up as more development houses finish their 'next-gen' projects.
"Nice attempt to twist a single bad review into some kind of confirmation that Microsoft sucks. How Slashdot-ish of you."
Yeah it really sucks to have to choose between Sony and M$ (getting a Wii is a given). I hate them both. Given the way that both companies are hemorrhaging money on their consoles, its probably best to just buy the system spawned from the company you hate the most, then buy all your games second hand so as to deny them the royalties.
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No, I'm sorry to disagree, but GoW really is a third person shooter. It in no way performs like a FPS, especially when you consider that the 'down the gun' aiming severely limits your movement. Your argument would also classify Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 as FPS, as they also have 'down the gun' aiming, yet many (most?) would consider them prototypical examples of the 3rd person shooter genre.
I think the reason some people say that GoW is similar to a FPS has less to do with the actual game-play, and more to due with the controller layout. The control scheme is not unlike that of many FPSs (namely Halo, though I think the 'twin stick' control scheme actually originated with Turok if you are only counting default controller configurations... 007 had the option), but GoW is certainly not the first TPS to employ a 'Halo-like' control scheme. Its a fairly common control style within the TPS genre.
I used to live in Philadelphia, and they would always swipe my ID at the State Stores. I'm not sure if it was required that they do so though. Pennsylvania has some of the weirdest alcohol laws I've ever encountered, like how you couldn't buy beer in less then a case legally... if I recall correctly (though places in shitty areas did so anyway). Usually we would just drive over to Jersey to avoid the mess and the high State Store prices.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that unlocking the iPhone was a hardware hack not a matter of installing an app. If you crack something open and take a soldering iron to it, you really should assume you are on your own.
I'm not really trying to defend Apple here, but what I've read about iPhone unlocking sounds more analgous to overclocking a chip, rather then trying to run Linux on it.
I wouldn't say they are being fooled just based on the articles they present. Just because the article is 'reprinted' here doesn't necessarily mean that it is receiving the endorsement of the editors as to being factual or accurate. The editor's job is only to point to articles that might be of interest to /.'s readers. Its better that the accuracy of the articles be discussed be /.'s readers, some of which might know what they are talking about. Relying on the editors to judge the actual facts would be a recipe for disaster.
Man, I can't believe I just defended the editors. I'm going to get modded to hell for this.
Given what everyone is saying in this thread my opinion doesn't seem very popular, but I would say that the first book is by far the weakest of the series. I really feel that Jordan hadn't really found the stories 'voice' yet and only does so in the following book. The books 2, 3, are undeniably great though after that the story turns from being about kids on an adventure to young men and women waging war and consolidating power. The story arcs get much much more complicated and dwell on politics, rather then survival. Personally I love the later books and I've gone through them all about 3-4 times (usually on tape). There are definitely areas where the story could be shortened (Perrin I'm looking at you) and told more succinctly, but I wouldn't call it filler as some here do. If you don't like long descriptions of nearly everything, you won't like Jordan's writing and its best to avoid any but maybe the earlier books.
I have the series on Book on Tape. For some reason when they are being read to me, I don't find 8-10 tedious at all. You might try it if you gonna make another run through. I'm actually listening to Book 5 now, and man it's good (I love Asmodean).
I read an interview where he says that he wrote the end already. He claims that the Last Battle was the first scene to occur to him, and the rest of the story cropped up around it. I imagine that the first 1500 pages will be where the ghost writer comes in. Oh, btw Book 11 is one of the best in the series, I highly recomend it. Its shocking how quickly things begin getting resolved, especially after the slow pace of 8-10.
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Well he did eventually get invited, usually because I would tell him. The problem was that I really wouldn't think to until the night of the party, and he's the type that likes to know ahead of time. Its not like anyone was excluding him, they just didn't always think to send out notices beyond MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster.
The other day I was watching 'The Big Sleep' (1946) with Humphry Bogart and Lauren Bacall. At one point the DA's man is taking down Bogart's testimony regarding a case. The camera cuts the the sheet of paper to reveal he is writing lines of what appear to me to be incomprehensible jibberish. I exclamed "What the hell lanquage is that?!" to which my girlfriend replied: "That's shorthand, its how people used to write quickly before touchtyping".
Given that people commonly compose emails on thier phones or PDAs or what have you, is it really that strange to think that they might try to save time by using a phone friendly form of shorthand?
My roommate is like that, he never created an accout on any SN site. He gets really pissed because he never gets invited to parties anymore as all the invites are distributed on MySpace (within our circle of friends). Likewise, he didn't buy a cell phone until 2006, and only then because at that point the cell phone was cheper then a land line. Before that, it annoyed everyone else that he was so hard to reach that even his close friends eventually stopped trying. I've never seen the nobility in not participating in cultural trends. All he ever did was isolate himself and alienate his friends.
Bioshock is the only game that I've played which actually inspires my spouse to sit beside me, totally enthralled as events unfold. She practically begs me to play so she can see what's going to happen next. All in all, my feeling is that this is a game that shouldn't be missed.
This is the reason I wish the game had a co-op mode. My g/f likes to watch too, but usually she would rather play along.
Because this guy wasn't on the Supreme Court that ruled the obscenity wasn't protected by the First Amendment.
There is no real difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. They are both the problem.
I was going to say build cars completely out of pillows. Then when people get drunk and run into one another they will have someplace to sleep it off.
They used to use ditto machines when I was in Elementary school. Those things were hideous with their awful purple/blue color, and were often so light as to be almost illegible. The switched to photo copiers right around when I turned 10 or so. I remember being impressed by how much nicer they were.
I agree with you that HFCS is the problem, but not in the way that most people think. Its not that HFCS is worse for you then sugar, its that its far cheaper then sugar, and so its used in everything from bread, to meat, to drinks. Essentially, it brought the cost of processed food down to the point that it doesn't cost McDonalds anything to 'supersize' it. They offer it, and we as animals will often take them up on the offer as it makes sense from a survival in the wild standpoint to eat as much as is available.
An anecdote to demonstrate my point: My friend Chris eats Burger King almost every single day, and has for as long as I can remember. He weighs 127 pounds, hasn't gained a pound since high school over 10 years ago, and doesn't work out (literally sits in front of the computer all day, both at work and at home). Why doesn't he gain weight, everything in his meal is saturated with HFCS and therefor calories? The answer is, he orders off the dollar menu and gets a small hamburger, small fry, and small coke. I'm not positive but I think that the 'happy meals' are larger, then his dinners. He might not have the healthiest diet in the world, but he doesn't seem any worse off for it.
It would help if you at least attempted to use proper capitalization and grammar. I'm not much of a grammar nazi, but people who never heard of the shift key come off as 15 or less. i SUPPosE We ShOUld aLL B GrATEful YoU DoNT TyPE LIKe ThiS ## LIke MY 14 YEar OlD CouSIN. (My apologies if English isn't your first language, I'm assuming it is.)
I don't know about that. My ex had one of those mythical metabolisms that let her eat anything she wanted. She was about 5'5 and had to actively fight to keep her weight from falling below a hundred pounds. She existed mostly on cheeseburgers and pizza, like many college students. She was quite muscular too, with very defined abs, though after living with her for a year and a half I'm confident she has never done a single sit-up in her life. Her mother is the exact same way, even in her late 50s.
We now know that humans have been growing crops and raising animals way further back then 12,000 years, though not 50,000. So your both wrong, you cocky shitheads.
I've always wondered if Blade Runner was supposed to take place in the 'Aliens' universe. After all, both movies were made by Ridley Scott and there is what could be an early gen replicant in the first one.
My last 3 laptops have been: First Gen iBook, First Gen Al Powerbook, and First Gen Black MacBook. The iBooks keyboard was a piece of shit, the Powerbook's was great and the MacBook's is so good I have a really hard time typing on anything else.
I'm not much for 'clicky' desktop keyboards, you have to move your fingers too much. An almost perfectly flat keyboard sounds very appealing to me. I suppose it all depends on your point of view.
True conservatives hate the government, considering it a necessary evil that ought be severely limited. Just because the neocons call themselves conservatives, it doesn't make it so. Anyway, conservative/liberal hasn't really meant anything for a very long time.
"To answer your question, no it doesn't mean Xbox 360 has few good games..."
Well in all fairness, 360 does have very few good games, as at this point it has very few games period. Still... XBox 360 is the first game system I've purchased (unless you count the NES, which my parents purchased, but made me cut the grass for an entire summer first) and I can't say I regret the investment. Between GoW, Oblivion, Fight Night 3, and Geometry Wars I've been pretty well entertained. GoW is probably the best shooter fun I've had since Goldeneye, its an amazing party game. The rate at which games are released will pick up as more development houses finish their 'next-gen' projects.
"Nice attempt to twist a single bad review into some kind of confirmation that Microsoft sucks. How Slashdot-ish of you."
Yeah it really sucks to have to choose between Sony and M$ (getting a Wii is a given). I hate them both. Given the way that both companies are hemorrhaging money on their consoles, its probably best to just buy the system spawned from the company you hate the most, then buy all your games second hand so as to deny them the royalties.
No, I'm sorry to disagree, but GoW really is a third person shooter. It in no way performs like a FPS, especially when you consider that the 'down the gun' aiming severely limits your movement. Your argument would also classify Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 as FPS, as they also have 'down the gun' aiming, yet many (most?) would consider them prototypical examples of the 3rd person shooter genre.
I think the reason some people say that GoW is similar to a FPS has less to do with the actual game-play, and more to due with the controller layout. The control scheme is not unlike that of many FPSs (namely Halo, though I think the 'twin stick' control scheme actually originated with Turok if you are only counting default controller configurations... 007 had the option), but GoW is certainly not the first TPS to employ a 'Halo-like' control scheme. Its a fairly common control style within the TPS genre.
I used to live in Philadelphia, and they would always swipe my ID at the State Stores. I'm not sure if it was required that they do so though. Pennsylvania has some of the weirdest alcohol laws I've ever encountered, like how you couldn't buy beer in less then a case legally... if I recall correctly (though places in shitty areas did so anyway). Usually we would just drive over to Jersey to avoid the mess and the high State Store prices.
Drink enough diet coke and you'll at least be running to the pisser every five minutes.